ifa 2013

At IFA 2013 in Berlin, Toshiba has shown off the first tablet to be powered by Intel’s upcoming Bay Trail SoC. Following some initial hands-on time at IFA, it doesn’t look good for either Windows 8.1 or Bay Trail. In conflicting news, though, the first official quad-core Bay Trail benchmarks were also released by Intel yesterday — and they show an Atom chip that is around three times faster than its predecessor, and about on par with AMD’s Kabini, while drawing half as much power (on paper, anyway).

Kicking off the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, the HDMI Forum has released HDMI 2.0. HDMI 2.0 introduces support for 4K (2160p) at 50 and 60 FPS, 3D playback at 4K resolution, up to 32 audio channels (up from a paltry eight), and some interesting features such as “dynamic auto lip-sync” and the ability to deliver dual video streams to multiple users on the same screen. The max throughput of HDMI 2.0 is a beefy 18Gbps (up from 10Gbps), and you’ll be glad to hear that your stupidly expensive HDMI cable will continue to work with the new spec.

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